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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



August 11. 1910. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



G. L. GRANT, Editor and Managke. 



PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY 



THE FLORISTS' PUBLISHING CO. 



530-560 Caxton Bnilding, 



334 Dearborn Street, CbicaKO. 



Telephone, Harrison 5429. 



bsaistered cabuc address, flobvib'w, chicaao 



New York Office: 



Borough Park Brooklyn, N. Y 



J.Austin SiIaw, Manager. 



SubBcrlptlon tl.OO a year. To Canada. $2.00. To 

 Europe, (2.50. Subscriptions accepted only from 

 those In the trade. 



Advertising rates quoted upon request. Only 

 strictly trade advertising accepted. 



Advertisements must reach us by 5 p. m. Tuesday, 

 to Insure insertion In the Issue of that week. 



Entered as second class matter December 3. 1897. 

 at the post-office at Chicago, 111., under the act of 

 March 3, 1879. 



This paper Is a member of the Chicago Trade 

 Press Association. 



INDEX TO ADVERTISERS, PAGE 90. 



CONTENTS. 



Society of American Florists 9 



— Couveutlon Programs 9 



— Entertainment Features 9 



— Bowling Prizes 9 



— - Gunners' Prizes 9 



The Retail Florist 10 



— .Murdoch's Store (lllus.) 10 



— Essentials of Design 10 



— The Bunyard Store (lllus.) 11 



— Which Line Pays Best 11 



Canadian Florists Meet 12 



— President Phllpott's Views 12 



— Harry E. Phllpott (portrait) 12 



Oshima (lllus.) 13 



Chicago Florists' Special 13 



Indianapolis (lllus.) 14 



Carnations 14 



— Up-to-date Culture 14 



Violets 15 



— Best Single Violet 16 



— Violets in Mum House 16 



Pot Chrysanthemums 15 



Seasonable Suggestions 16 



— Polnsettlas 16 



— Show Pelargoniums 16 



— Crotons 16 



— Lillum Harrlsli 16 



Geraniums 16 



— Scented Geraniums 16 



— Geranium Foliage Eaten 16 



Novel Supplies (illus. ) 17 



Roses — Carrying Plants Over 17 



Biennials and Perennials 18 



Bottom Heat for Palm Seed 18 



Hydrangeas 18 



Obituary 18 



Cincinnati 18 



The House of .Michell (portraits! 19 



Convention Notes 20 



Sweet Pea Society 20 



.Society of American Floiisls 20 



Ladies' S. A. F 20 



The Potent Influence 20 



Chicago 20 



Boston 25 



Philadelpbic 28 



New York 30 



Detroit 84 



Dayton, 86 



Pacific Coast 40 



— San Francisco 40 



— Seattle, Wash 41 



St. Louis 42 



Steamer Sailings 44 



Seed Trade News 46 



— DtJtch Bulbs 46 



— HarrlssU Bulbs 46 



— Government Crop Report 46 



— Onion Sets 47 



— French Bulbs Arrive 48 



— Imports 48 



— Growing Seed Beans 48 



— Catalogues Received S6 



.\nemone8 for Cut Flowers 55 



Nursery News 60 



— Not a Consolidation 60 



— Test on Rose Plant Duty 60 



— Evils of the Replace Policy 60 



Vegetable Forcing 61 



— Lettuce for Thanksgiving 61 



Providence 62 



Pittsburg 64 



Rochester 66 



Glen Cove, N. V 68 



Milwaukee 70 



Greenhouse Heating 78 



— Changing to Steam Hcjit 78 



— Steam for Enlarged Iliinsi' 78 



— Over a Mine 79 



— Two Michigan Houses 80 



Bar Harbor. Me 82 



Yonkers, N. Y 82 



Erie, Pa 84 



Minneapolis 86 



<"levelan»i. () 86 



Denver, Colo 88 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Incobporated bt Act of Conorkss, March 4, '01 



Officers for WIO: President, F. R. Pierson, Tarry- 

 town, N. Y.; vice-president, F. W. Vick, Rochester, 

 N. Y.; secretary. H. B. Dorner, Urbana, 111.; 

 treasurer. W. F. Kastlng, Buffalo, N. Y. 



Annual convention. Rochester. N. Y., August 16 

 to 19. 1910. 



Results bring advertising. 

 The Eeview brings results. 



Some people say that Latania Borbon- 

 iea is "coming back," but others think 

 it will, like other old favorites, get no 

 farther than Keno. 



F. Dorner & Sons Co., La Fayette, Ind., 

 will send out two new carnations in 

 1911, Gloriosa, bright pink, and "White 

 Wonder, a seedling of White Perfection. 



This is not The Eeview 's special num- 

 ber; this one is all in the day's work. 

 The convention special comes out next 

 week, with a full report of the Eochester 

 meeting. 



The Chicago Florists' Club has voted 

 to invite the S. A. F. to hold its next 

 convention in that city. The single dis- 

 advantage under which Chicago labors is 

 that a hall for the trades' display will 

 cost as much as the entire expense of the 

 convention in smaller cities. 



CONVENTION NOTES. 



The secretary has received notice 

 from the St. Louis Florists' Club that 

 an invitation will be extended the so- 

 ciety to hold its 1911 meeting in St. 

 Louis. 



Badges have been mailed to all mem- 

 bers who have paid their dues. Do not 

 forget to bring them to the convention, 

 as two badges will not be issued on one 

 receipt. 



From the reports and letters received, 

 the attendance at the coming conven- 

 tion promises to be the largest in the 

 history of the society. 



A. L. Miller, vice-president from 

 eastern New York, says that about 200 

 from New York city will attend the 

 meeting. 



The executive board recommends that 

 the society hold a special meeting at the 

 time of the National Flower Show in 

 Boston. 



H. B. Dorner, Sec'y. 



SWEET PEA SOCIETY. 



There will be a meeting of the Na- 

 tional Sweet Pea Society of America 

 at Rochester at 9 a. m. (place an- 

 nounced later), August 18. 



This is in response to a request from 

 the secretary of the S. A. F. to such 

 societies as wish to hold a meeting at 

 the annual convention in Eochester, and 

 is in accordance with the resolution 

 passed by the executive committee of 

 the S. A. F. at its spring meeting. 



H. A. Bunyard, Sec'y. 



SOCIETY OF AMEBICAN FLORISTS. 



Depaxtment of Beglstratlon. 



As no objections have been filed, pub- 

 lic notice is hereby given that the regis- 

 tration of the fern Nephrolepis 

 Dreyerii, by Kessler Bros., 52 West 

 Twenty-eighth street. New York, and G. 

 Dreyer, Woodside, L. I., becomes com- 

 plete. 



Public notice is hereby given that 

 Henry Eichholz, of Waynesboro, Pa., 

 offers for registration the carnation de- 



scribed below. Any person objecting to 

 the registration, or to the use of tlie 

 proposed name, is requested to coramuiii 

 cate with the secretary at once. Fail 

 ing to receive objection to the registra 

 tion, the same will be made three week;, 

 trom this date. Raiser's description: 

 Alvina x Victory; of dwarf growth, 

 forming quickly a very large plant in 

 the field; will produce from early struck 

 cuttings plants furnishing 100 and mon- 

 blooms per season; adapted for use as m 

 pot plant for Christmas sales; color ol 

 the true poinsettia scarlet. Name: 

 Christmas Cheer. H. B. Dorner, Sec 'v. 

 August 4, 1910. 



LADIES' S. A. F. 



Members will find the secretary at 

 Exhibition hall all day Tuesday, August 

 16. Please come and get your badges 

 and tickets for the reception and dance, 

 Wednesday evening, August 17. 



The directors' meeting will be held at 

 9:30 a. m. August 17, and the annual 

 meeting at 10:30 a. m. August 17, in 

 the parlors of the Hotel Seneca. 



Don't forget your badge pins. 



Mrs. C. H. Maynard, Sec'y. 



THE POTENT INFLUENCE. 



Many factors have influenced adver 

 tisers, but it is coming to be more and 

 more general that their advertisements 

 are placed in accordance with the re- 

 sults obtained: 



We are glad to acknowledge that we have had 

 far more satisfactory results from The Review 

 than from any other method of advertising. — 



C. G. James & Sou, Homell, N. Y., August 1, 

 1910. 



Sold entirely out; Review ads do the work. — 



D. G. Grillbortzer, Alexandria, Va., August 1, 

 1910. 



You need not Insert my advertisement another 

 week, :is the stock is all sold; just credit me 

 with the amount paid for the Insertions I do 

 not need. — J. J. Clayton, West Grove, Pa., 

 .\ugust 1, 1910. 



The big Special Convention Number 

 of The Review comes out next week. 

 Advertisers must send copy promptly 

 or be left. 



CHICAGO. 



The Great Central Market. 



The ups and downs have been less 

 pronounced in the last seven days than 

 they were in the fortnight preceding; 

 the demand has been fairly constant 

 and has amounted to a volume sufficient 

 to make an excellent midsummer week. 

 Shipping trade is heavier this summer 

 than it ever has been before, and 

 locally there is always funeral work, 

 with this week some special demand 

 because of the visit of the Knights 

 Templar. 



There has been a marked increase in 

 the supply of asters, but not much 

 change otherwise in market conditions. 

 While the cut of asters is several times 

 as great as a week ago, by far the 

 greater part of the stock still is of such 

 poor quality that it has little value. 

 Even those growers who have irrigated 

 their aster patches find their stock not 

 up to the quality they expected. With 

 those who have had no water the 

 blooms are so poor that many are un- 

 salable. With only a fraction of the 

 receipts coming up to the requirements 

 of the better class stores, it is natural 

 that really good asters should be bring- 

 ing excellent prices, for there are not 

 enough of these to go around. There 

 is an abundance of the medium grade 



